![]() Bleeping Computer reported last October that Pirate Bay the feature.The torrent site’s new approach represents a kind of so-called “cryptojacking” that is voluntary in nature. Despite framing the test as limited in nature, many visitors cried foul as much of their computing power for mining XMR. If you don’t agree please leave now or install an adBlocker.”That message comes months after the site’s administrators wrote in that they were testing a monero Javascript miner in an effort to, as they put it, “get rid of all the ads.”It was a controversial effort launched by an equally controversial website, which has drawn the ire of numerous national governments for its role in facilitating file-sharing online. Torrent website The Pirate Bay is doubling down on its plan to use visitors’ processing power to mine crypto.In a disclaimer recently added to the bottom of its homepage, the website said that “by entering TPB you agree to monero being mined using your CPU.
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